Roger Glover quotes
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“I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.”
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“No one enjoys being away from friends and family.”
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“If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.”
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“I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.”
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“It's really an orchestral piece featuring a group and it was quite revolutionary at the time and it in fact, it kicked Deep Purple off as a name in Great Britain because it made all the newspapers. Everyone was writing about us. And there was some confusion as to what kind of band we were after that, which is why Deep Purple in Rock is such a hard unbending album of really furious hard heavy rock. Heavy metal hadn't been invented at that point.”
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“You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.”
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“I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.”
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“I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.”
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“Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.”
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“I came back from Japanese tour a broken man to find that one of my outside productions was very high in the charts and that was Nazareth. I stepped into another career and suddenly became a well-known producer.”
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“Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.”
-- Roger Glover
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